Stobo Kirk

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About this artwork

In the late 1930s, McIntosh Patrick made a number of works featuring Stobo Kirk, a twelfth century church near Peebles, south of Edinburgh. The vertical format of this painting works to frame the bell tower, making it appear larger and more imposing than it is in reality. This was part of the artist’s practice, where he would make meticulous sketches and watercolours of the scene which were later reworked in his Dundee studio. He would select the elements he wanted to depict, editing out those which he felt disrupted the overall composition. In this painting, he has removed the stairway and entrance on the side of the tower.

James McIntosh Patrick

James McIntosh Patrick

James McIntosh Patrick was born in Dundee. He displayed a facility for painting and drawing from an early age and went on to study at Glasgow School of Art from 1924 to 1928. By his mid-twenties he had won national recognition as a printmaker of highly detailed landscape panoramas and…